WriteToThem: FaxYourMP for all levels of government

Some of the folks who worked on TheyWorkForYou.com and FaxYourMP.com -- two of the most amazing civic participation tools I've ever seen -- have launched a successor to FaxYourMP called WriteToThem.com. WriteToThem is a tool for writing emails and faxes to British local councillors, city assembly members, Members of Parliament and Members of the European Parliament. What's more, the system's back-end is a generalized, Free Software-licensed program that can be readily adapted for other countries.

FaxYourMP was the grandaddy of British democracy sites, starting way back in the year 2000. Today it has been relaunched as WriteToThem.com - a total new-from-the-ground-up site allowing those lucky Brits to find out who their elected representative are, at all levels of government, and then get in touch with them. That's over 20,000 people in a mishmash of layered geographic constituencies enough to make a data-structures engineer weep for mercy. It has been built by a charitable project, mySociety.org, that is building four more projects in the same spirit this year. And because they know that foreign online democracy stories often send people to sleep, they've made a special page aimed at people outside the UK to describe why What They've Done Matters To You.

Link (Thanks, Tom!)